Camera and object tracking information lets you add 3-D animated effects into live-action footage, such as
- Animated 3-D character insertion (mascots, beasts, flying pixies, you name it). A favorite for commercials.
- Vehicle insertion. Aircraft, boats, cars, trucks, spacecraft, things you wish you could get live, but couldn't afford or don't exist.
- Fix shaky shots—SynthEyes lets you control the process for tough shots where some bounciness will remain, or to focus attention on specific objects
- Digital cosmetics, such as computer-generated wounds
- Architectural Previsualization (ground level or helicopter)
- Virtual set extensions (boy, that's a fancy newsroom!)
- Virtual product placement (did George Washington really drink XYZ?)
- Accident/crash reconstructions (from external or in-vehicle P.O.V.)
- Matte painting insertions (yes, that's me walking on Mars)
- Face and low-volume full body motion capture.
- Build 3-D meshes from 3-D locations determined from the imagery.
- Clean plate generation
- Panorama generation
- Transparent effects. A broad catch-all for effects you really can't see, often fix-its: insert snow, puddles, volumetric smoke, a big tree to cover a phone pole, a vase to replace a microphone left in-camera.